3 days Hiking and Camping in The Scottish highlands

Welcome to the Affric Kintail Way. I'm really frozen. Look at this, we've got a beach. Lead the way. I'll try and dry myself with a dishcloth. Alright big fella, loo with a view. I've got three jelly babies left. Oh look at this. This has to be one of the best views in Scotland. You ready? I'm ready. Good morning and welcome to the start of the Affric Kintail Way here in the Scottish Highlands. About to set off on a 44 mile trail from Drumnadrochit. All the way to a place called Morvik. This is actually a Great Glen Way running through here and the Cape Raft Trail running through there, but guess who else is here for this one? Good morning! Good! It's currently two degrees, it's actually pretty chilly. Mid-October, it's been really warm and now all of a sudden it's really dropped so we've packed our sort of wintery kit. I'm going to grab a bacon cob and a coffee and the trail actually sets off from the Loch Ness Hub and Visitor Centre in Drumnadrochit. Let's do it, you ready? I'm ready. So apparently it's quite well signposted and that is what we're going to be following. Which one are we doing Sam? Which one are we doing? You do the uh whatever that bottom one says, Yorker Hart Bay Wood. So there's a nice tap to fill up here, there's cafes and all sorts and Drumnadrochit. We camped at Loch Ness Bay campsite last night which is right at the start. It's easy to get to on the bus and stuff so this is uh Good place to start a hike. All right, let's go get a bit of breakfast. I'm not sure what's going on here. I'm warming up. My warm-up's a coffee. Dad's warm-up is this. What a beautiful morning. Good morning. That's a Highland Bull, I think. All right, big fella. So the plan for this one, we're splitting it basically into three 15-mile days. And Tonight there's a campsite around 15 miles in and then second night will be a wild camp somewhere along one of the locks hopefully or we'll figure it out when we get there. But yeah, three days. We've left one car at one end, my van at this end so we'll be able to come back. There is buses and stuff but it just worked out easier that way. And I've never been in this area before, Glen Affric. Heard it's very beautiful so looking forward to it. Have you been there before? No it's a new one on me as well. There we go looking forward to it too. Tell you what if it's this well signposted all the way that'd be easy they're everywhere. So the Affric Glen Way has around six thousand feet of elevation gain I believe which isn't too bad provided it's uh split up fairly evenly. It's not like the Great Glen Way where the second half is where all the elevation was but The first day looking at the map is pretty much just forest, forest track, nice forest track as well. The views down the valley all the way to this place called Canick where there is the first campsite then it looks like it drops into the glen and then along the locks and yeah I imagine that's where most of the sort of epic scenery is. Check this out for a bench, you want to have a go? No, he's gone past it. Oh, no. Something's not right. Something's not right. I'll tell you what, the trail warms you up straight away. Climbing up through the forest, pretty decent amount of ascent. Apparently, there's quite a lot of wild boar in this area, so we're going to keep an eye out for them. There's the drinking hole up. But, yeah, good warm-up. Definitely feels warmer than two degrees now. Gloves are off. Gloves are off. Serious. Serious. so that's just brought us up to 700 feet and now we're just following this nice forest road mid-october we've got all the autumn colors absolutely beautiful once i set up my tent i'll show you the kit i've brought for this trip i'm actually trying out a quilt for the first time everyone raves about quilts don't they and i went and bought one it cost an absolute fortune but it's rated to really cold temps it's really big and Light, but big and lofty, so I'm hoping it'll be nice and warm. But I'll let you know, Dad's got his new sleeping bag, which he bought ages ago after we did the West Highland Way, and he was pretty chilly, I think. So he's got like a Rab for the Everest sleeping bag. So we should be nice and toasty tonight. But yeah, I'll show you the kit. We've just hit five miles. We've found a nice picnic bench. Some sort of little car park type of thing here. So I'm hoping we'll have a little break here. Even a little barbecue spot. Maybe hot, warm my hands up, oh it's freezing. Morning. So we've just come out of that forest down to a farm, crossed the road, climbed up this one then we sort of head all the way around in that direction to end up back down there somewhere. So getting some of the ascent done straight away. We're just about hitting 10 miles, we're gonna stop to try and find somewhere to sit for a bit of a bit of lunch. What you got for your lunch? I've got a tuna. Tuna, tuna, and some rice cake. We've got these little tuna pouches and wraps, or rice cakes, made for good meals and they last for days and days. And just a load of snacks and stuff really, and a couple of dry, proper dry meals for a night. I'm getting hungry, it's been pretty easy going first few, first 10 miles really. Some decent hills, but all forest track, so all kind of like this. So it's a nice way to warm up into the trail. Still haven't found anywhere to stop for lunch yet. It's all looking for a nice little log or a little seat. There's nothing. After two miles of looking for a decent seat, we've given up. Sat by a gate next to the road. Lunch time. So lunch is little wraps, tuna pouches. Now you might think, you can't sit against the gate on the trail. All the people will try and get through the gate. We've not seen a single person all day so the likelihood is slim but you watch the whole group of people coming walking down there. All right we've just got the last four miles to the campsite. Hello there, good afternoon. Good boy. You're a beauty, aren't you? We're gonna zigzag down through this forest and somewhere down there is the campsite then tomorrow we're up that side and along. It's going to be about 16 miles by the time we get there for the day and it's all been pretty easy walking so it's a nice way of switching the legs over from cycling the Great Glen Way a couple of days ago to now hiking. I've actually got DOMS, I wasn't expecting the biking to give me so many muscle DOMS so that is a bit painful at the moment. So you wouldn't want to put your arm in there would you? The old chipper. I can see a little bit of civilisation. Through the trees, Cannock village store. Well that's good news because I ate more of my snacks than I was supposed to today. I didn't know there was a shop. Smoking bean, they've got coffee and we're just crossing over the river. Look at that and this is the little village of Cannock. So the campsites here, there is I think a pub or a bar and restaurant, a cafe in the morning and and a shop so perfect and we've just hit 15.8 miles here nearly 16 miles day one in the back some nice houses here if anyone wants to live in cannock that is for sale look at that be nice on it and here is the campsite Glen Affric Holiday Park I think that's the one i've booked so here's Cannock village hall and there is the holiday park okay my bad i haven't booked that one at all There's another, that's just a holiday park, cabins and stuff, there's a campsite a little bit further up. 200 yards. Here we go, Cannock Caravan and Camping Park, open all year and there's a cafe for breakfast. Fish and chips this Friday, five till seven and that is tonight. Just realised it's actually Saturday today, not Friday. So we've missed the fish and chips but hopefully we can get some food at the bar and restaurant wherever that is, somewhere in the village. Get in here as well. If you've got a stove you can just set that with tea. We can ask you, is that a pub? Is that food? Can you get in there we've got a booking. Food for what? Oh drink? Isn't that drinking orange We've got a little bench. So that's the cafe there. Toilet block and everything's there. Dad's happy because he's got a bench. Check this little gadget out. This is pad pump. Tiniest weighs nothing little thing and he actually plugs into your phone and then runs off your phone. Tried it the other day and it used it didn't even use one percent of my battery pumping up the whole pad so just another thing that I don't have to worry about charging which is All right that's my tent set up and everything so let me give you a very quick run through. Durston X-Dome One Plus with the solid inner. At the very bottom in the colder months I have a Alpkit Easy Sleeper silver side up folding pad. Therm-a-Rest NeoAir Loft sleeping pad. This is the quilt which is an Enlightened Equipment Revelation quilt. I mean look at the loft on that, it should be nice and toasty. I'm going two pillow job. I'm using the strap from the quilt to hold my Rab pillow down and that will be my warm jacket in there. Electrics, first aid kit, miscellaneous stuff in that one, food, spare clothes, backpack which is the Black Diamond BeetleLite 45, been using that loads, cook kit, some food and water. That is it. So dad set up He's using the trusty Durston X-Mid 2 with a solid inner which you've used for quite a while now. Oh, yeah. He's got his new sleeping bag the Rab Andes Infinium 800 W minus 23. He's got a silver liner he's got a Sea to Summit mat which and he's basically got the same Alpkit. EasySleeper. His mat's not quite as warm as mine I don't think but with the sleeping bag like that you ain't got to worry about that. Toasty. Toasty. Toasty. You stayed in last night didn't you? Read us. Read us. It was beautiful. So yeah. Minus 23. I'm So mine's supposed to be minus 17, starting minus 23 and it's not even going to be a minus tonight. But the warmer the better that's the rule. If I could give you a good few years of advice in one second do not skimp weight on being comfortable at night to so get a warm get a sleeping bag that's speak. rated 10 degrees warmer than it's even gonna be. Take the comfiest sleeping mat that you can find Make sure you've got pillows. Make sure you're warm. Good sleep is worth the weight because you'll you'll be strong enough to carry the weight so if you've slept well every night you don't worry about the fact it's a little bit extra and things like getting a quilt providing it works well that still saves you a bit of weight that's like 800 grams for that Minus 17 quilt, which kind of makes up for the heavier sleeping pads. Right, we're going to get everything sorted, get some food, top up from the shop and that, so I'll show you what the village is like. Yeah, it looks nice. We have a Londis and then an Afrik bar and cafe. This place is nice. This is the menu. We've got pizzas, burgers, snacks, pies, all sorts of things. Charging point for the phone. Thank you. Everything charged up. Here we go. We've got steak and cheese pie, chips with cheese sauce and gravy to go over the top of the whole lot. Just topped up my snacks. Tomorrow morning we'll be able to get breakfast in the cafe and then pretty much walk along here and there's the sign. Follow straight up there tomorrow morning. So I realised I've forgotten one fairly important item. And that is my little towel. The shower block's freezing so I either have to stand and drip dry freezing cold or not shower or just have a little wet wipe bath or something. The shop didn't have any, they had some cloths, try and dry myself with a dish cloth probably but would have been better than nothing but I might just have to wet wipe it tonight I think and then obviously same again tomorrow night so there won't be any showers while camping. There's a little church along here so Take a quick look at that, although it looks kind of, it's huge, little church, it's huge. Sort of looks like someone's house to be honest. Excuse me, my god. Oh maybe the church is a separate thing behind the building. The fact there's a sign here tells me we were allowed in. Marydale Catholic Church, 1866 A.D. I don't know. It's a massive church for a tiny little village. We're in. The bloke that works here, he's given me a towel. And I got one. And dad's got one, he doesn't even need one. So this is a little shower block. Well, that's me showered up, feeling fresh, thanks to that chap and his towel. And yeah, I guess we're gonna chill out for a bit, make a little video of the day. And unless anything drastic happens, I'll see you in the morning. I'll let you know how nice and toasty I am. First time. Good morning and welcome to day two on the African Trailway. It was quite a frosty one, it got down to around one to zero degrees, so there's frost on the tents but Dad was nice and toasty in his sleeping bag weren't you? Oh yes I was lovely. And I was nice and toasty in my quilt so the only downside was there was quite a lot of condensation because there was zero wind so I've been trying to dry the bags off in that this morning. but managed to get breakfast at the cafe and today's plan is to hike between 15 and 20 miles towards Loch Affric through in the glen and try and find somewhere to wild camp around there so weather looks is cold but it's sunny so hopefully we get a nice camping spot for the night with a good view and uh yeah see what the day brings you ready for it yep looking forward to it Let's do it. So the Affric Kintail Way is actually a link up of old drove roads which were used back in the day to take cattle from one place to another which is why the majority of it is actually pretty good footpaths. Pretty much the first half of the whole trail seems to be forest roads and tracks and I'm interested to see what it's like after we get into Glen Affric and pass all the locks. So. But quite fast, fast paced, easy-ish walking and I think you can cycle the whole thing, which means it must be a reasonably good path the whole way. This might be the first bit of single track we've been on. Looks like we're coming down to, coming down out of the forest, across the road. Somewhere along there is a waterfall called Dog Falls and I think it's a bit off the trail but we're not in any rush really so I might nip and see that, have a little break there. About five miles in this morning. And the sun's shining through, it's warmed up. Perfect, perfect day for it. I think it tells them how many people have been through the trail. So if you go through a couple of times then they'll get more budget to look after it. There we go. There we go. Most of my long distance hikes, if you've been watching my videos for a while, you know I wear Altra Lone Peaks. And I decided I wanted to try and find something exactly the same with a bit more cushion. Just to protect my feet on the longer days and I tried a few of the other ultras on and these are the Olympus 7s, the new Olympus and they're exactly what I was looking for. They feel pretty much the same as the Lone Peaks, still non-waterproof and all that but they've got a little bit more cushion and you can really tell so I'm really happy with these. Yeah. Let me quickly show you, that's what they look like, Olympus. Sevens, which my feet are not aching at all and especially since we've been on these kind of flat forest trails, it's when your feet would normally ache the most. What do we have here? An old mine shaft. A very well-made one actually, looking at that, except for the water. So here there is a little car park and some toilets which is handy. I bet they're composting toilets. Yeah, composting toilets. Hello little squat and drop. Right, go find the waterfall. Sounds good to me. Nessie. Let's see. So the trail goes, Afrik can tell where it goes that way but the Dog Falls is there so I think we might just walk down and see it shall we. All right Dog Falls Trail. There's a little waterfall here but I don't think this is the actual one. Don't slip in. Keep going a little bit further. Here we go. So this is 0.3 miles from that car park so it's Basically, just over half a mile there and back. If you want to come and see this waterfall. Oh yeah! Can we get down to it? So this is the viewpoint. But, I mean, very nice. Can't really see the waterfall. Let me see if I can send you over the edge. Well, not the best viewing platform, but worth it for a little detour. You can see the top of it down there. All right, let's get back, have a little break, and then crack on. Yeah, that's the top of the falls. Nice little picnic bench there for a break. We've got a little Turkish delight and a Biscoff cream egg tart thing. Luca's aid. What do you want? Fruit and nuts? Get them back. Bacon fries. Energy foods. So this is all my snacks for the next two days. That's all coffee. Chocolate sweets, protein, It's all healthy stuff. Tuna wraps. What have you got for two days? One for each day. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. And then I've got my breakfast and evening meals as well so I ain't gonna be hungry. I probably will still be hungry to be fair. We're just coming alongside a loch at the moment and I can't pronounce the name of it but the water is so still because there's no wind the reflections are incredible. You just can't get a good vantage point to show you. Absolutely beautiful with all the colours, the autumn colours at the moment. We're still in the forest, we've been, we're over halfway through the whole trail now. The first half has all been forest, pretty much forest track so easy going but I'm looking forward to getting out, getting into the glen, seeing the views. Here's a little bit of a viewpoint for you. We are 13 miles in for the day and just down there is the end of the road at Glen Affric. There's a little car park with some picnic benches, toilets again. So that is where we're going to stop for lunch. Just spotted a little waterfall through there and then after that we go along Loch Affric and the far end of that I'm hoping there's a bit of Bit of a beach, I might be able to camp at that, so that should be awesome. So yeah. Decent day so far, 13 miles before lunch though, that's pretty good going, I'm starving. We're just gonna go slightly off trail for a few hundred meters to the car park in the picnic area and then we'll be heading back that way. There's a nice picnic bench and the car park's up there, some toilets and stuff I think. We've got our picnic bench for lunch, we've got some noodles, water brewing up for some noodles, got some coffee brewing, basically fill up this little bag thing and make some like filter coffee, dad's built half of it. Ha, ha, ha! and yeah i don't know what these noodles would be like but 40 grams of protein will be good for me and then some wraps a bit of tuna and this is our view. any chance i get i just try and give my quilt a bit of time in the sun i mean it's pretty much dry but the condensation just really builds up in the down and uh over a few days in cold weather. can render your quilt or sleeping bag useless so when the sun's out you get opportunity just always let everything air out as much as possible stay nice and warm i've learned learned the hard way on other hikes all right on we go we noticed quite a lot of vehicles and people down in this area and apparently they're actually filming a film down in Glen Affric um or a series we'll go see if they need any extras over there is I think it's Glen Affric lodge. I'm pretty sure people hire it out for weddings and stuff. Now the views are really starting to open up. I think we're leaving the forests behind. When looking for somewhere to get your water from and filter your water I can hear a bit of a stream or a burn here and if we look above there there's basically it can only come off the top of that There's no animals, no cows, nothing like that. Run down here to that water. It's going to be pretty fresh and that's going down into the lake. So I'm going to go into the loch. So this is where I'm going to fill up my bottles for the evening. Probably could just filter out of the loch itself but it's probably slightly more stagnant, probably more more things going on in there. So yeah, have a quick check upstream just make sure nothing's dead. Take the water from a fast flowing part of the stream like so. Whoa, slipping. Smells alright, looks alright and then basically this one is just to push down to filter it and I'll fill up these bottles. You have to pretty much put all your body weight into this, should take about 10 seconds or so and you know it's good. That just pushes all the water through Into there. Natch, fresh clean drinking water, well you only get 500ml at a time so. I've got to do this a few more times. All right, bottles are topped up, sun's about to go down so we just need to find a nice little camp spot. I like to have about two to three litres of water for camp and then probably use a litre for cooking, tea and breakfast, litre for drinking, litre for brushing my teeth and all that sort of stuff. So I always carry. well i had that extra Lifestraw bottle but sometimes i carry like a little collapsible one just in case so dad's using a Katadyn BeFree filter which i've got one of them as well and then i've got one of the GraalPress filters which acts as a bottle as well and apparently it does filter out a little bit more so i've been using that one in different countries and stuff and uh they're a bit more risky so apparently the GraalPress will filter out viruses whereas um The B3 doesn't but in the UK I think it's pretty unlikely you get a virus out of the water source but abroad I don't dare risk it That is the little beach I wanted to camp at and believe it or not there's like five tents there and it looks like some sort of building so I don't know what what that is. I'm trying to work out what that actually is down there There's a load of canoes, there's a load of tents and some old buildings Is it somebody's land or camp there? Oh my feet are soaked, last end of the day yeah Great we're gonna have what we call frost foot tonight and frozen shoes. There's no sign saying it's private or anything so looking at that we've got a load of canoes and a little canoe expedition we can go and camp over this side I reckon and I mean it looks like the portaloos but probably wrong Right my feet are drenched now though Just had a quick chat with them guys they've come on the canoes we are pitching. Look at this we've got a beach and that's actual beach sandy beach so yeah they've been they have been filming here they've been in and out apparently just finished filming so this is our spot for tonight there's no wind forecast tonight it's going to be cold but um we can pretty much go anywhere so we've just got to find a little flat and dry spot and wake up to this in the morning oh here they go this looks a little spot there, look. We have to send dad over the other side of the lake though. He was snoring like 10 men last night. What's this saying? Is it boggy? No, dry as a bone. Oh yeah, perfect. Look at that view. How you doing? All right mate, I'm just debating whether to have a strip wash now or have my tea first. I don't know. Probably wash first and then you can uh. I'm just gonna do top off it's just gonna be bottom off. Cheers for that mate. You're welcome. We'll leave you to that one. Wow what a spot to camp if it was in the summer and it was nice and warm the loch is so clear that would be a perfect place to have a little swim and wash off but it's currently zero degrees. So I'm not going in there but I'm going to sit and enjoy it and the sun's just gone down over there which means the sun should go down, sorry come up over this side in the morning. I'm going to set my alarm and hopefully get a good sunrise. We've heard some deer screaming you know they make that noise which is normally a stag calling out for a mate. So maybe I have sighting of them somewhere I'll keep an eye out. Is that pumped up yet? Oh it does take a little bit of time this you see. For tonight's meal we have risotto, thousand calories that's what we need. Just boiling up some water, I've got that as well, pastas, but I'll have that tomorrow I think. This is my view. For anyone that's not had one of these dehydrated meals before or freeze-dried, basically you get a little fill line there it'll tell you a number to go for. You put your hot water in, well boiling water in, up to the line, give it a stir, make sure it's properly stirred up, mix it all in, stirred, seal it up and you're going to wait 15 minutes and in winter this makes a really good sort of hot water bottle you've got on so what you don't spill. This one says wait five minutes but I would give it 10 to 15 at least. So some of these that you get you can actually also tear it off when you're ready to eat it. lower down which means you don't have to stick your hand in to get the food out that's actually delicious should be for 15 pound but yeah that's great you know what makes me laugh about this set up the pad and the loft of the sleeping bag is so big i'm taking up like the entire entire tent and this is quite a big one-man tent but so nice and warm nice and cozy comfortable a lot of condensation In here, in here, looks like outside, a low cloud, so we're up high, a cloud in here. All right, we've got some coffee brewing, some oats cooking, that is breakfast. I've got a little bag of chocolate protein powder that I'll put into my oats. A little bit of protein, not sure what the temperature is, I've got no signal, but if it was zero-ish last night, this has got to be in the minuses, probably minus two or three, Maybe even lower to be fair. Give it a whirl shall we. Already gone cold. My shoes are pretty frozen. On top of it, you know what I mean? Leave no trace except for a square of frost. A big square of frost. So a load of people have turned up it sounds like. They're actually taking that building down. So that must have been part of the one of the props, part of the set. That's crazy. All right back on the trail so we should have around 14-15 miles we'll pass a hostel we'll pass a boffy today which will probably stop for luncheon and we should be up over the uh sort of a little mountain pass kind of valley pass so scenery should be good today once the cloud lifts hopefully yeah final day on the Glen Affric no final day on the what do you call it the Affric Final day on the Affric Trailway, so that's how they get up and down out of the set. There's a little waterfall over here. Look at this vehicle. A couple of buildings there but they show up on the map so I'm guessing that is like a bit of an old farm or maybe a farm that's in use. There's a quad bike outside. You can actually see the tops of the mountains are in the sunshine. so we're just basically when you look down at a cloud inversion from high up we are in that or fog or whatever you want to call it and that looks like a proper building That one's a proper building there, look there, windows and everything, so yeah that must be a farm, well imagine living down here right out of the way so crossing over this bridge carry on up the valley, there's another building here and i think i know what that is, there's a Scottish Mountaineering Club building up here so i'm wondering if that's theirs They uh be part of the club, tend to get it like super cheap stay in places like that and you could go off bagging Munros or just uh having a bit of peace and quiet. Yeah this is it, Strawberry Cottage. I remember seeing it on the map. Anyone in? Hello. Oh a bit of shelter here though if needed. Wow we've just come up above the cloud now. Oh look at this right next to us, that is awesome. So now we're heading along through the glen here. Through that gap there I think. So in about three miles we'll come across Scotland's most remote youth hostel. The only way to get to that one is bike on foot or one of these sort of tracked vehicles I guess and it's a good few miles from any road but it does close for the winter season, it closes the end of September. It won't be open but I'll show you and yeah the views now absolutely incredible. It's worth persevering through the forests for the first half of the trail. Looks like we're coming into West Africa. Oh, hang on, a little waterfall. What an introduction. Oh yeah, beautiful. I'm just going to see if I can get down to it because I could do with topping up my water a little bit. Looks a bit dodgy though. Can we get down there without slipping in? You can go for a little swim in there, I reckon. Ice cold, Fresh Highland Spring. Just spotted the youth hostel in the distance and i'll tell you what it is so peaceful down here there's nobody down here after all them vehicles and that further along there not seen a single person not seen we've seen literally like two people on this entire trail so yes absolutely you want a bit of peace and quiet serenity viewed wait for a good weather I'm going to use the weather window and do the freaking tail way. You can just see the roof of the hostel. To give you an idea of how remote it is, this is what's around us. Here it is, Scotland's most remote youth hostel. Probably the most remote in the UK. Let's see if any of it's left open. What's that building back there? No, it's all locked up. Let's try this side. That'll be locked. Hey, oh! Oh, is that a toilet? Not drinking water. Wow, check this out. Are there bunkies at all? I'm guessing. This is only left open for genuine emergencies, not somewhere you can emergency shelter. Facility open, please follow the house rules, bury waste, no fires, carry rubbish. Well that is good to know, very handy. We'll just stop in here for a little snack break and then we'll probably have lunch at the boffy which is another few miles up there. What have you got? Nuts! More nuts? Oops. Somehow a load of water's got in here so I'm just letting this air out a bit. Let's go on to the boffy. So we're heading up through that valley there and I believe we'll be dropping quite steep down the other side. We're at 880 feet at the moment. Socks handy again. I see bits like this but the way around is just as boggy. Don't mind as long as it doesn't go over the waterproof sock. Just steadily climbed up to about 1,100 feet. Which I imagine is probably the highest point on this trail so So... Oop. it's all very steady. Slippy. All very steady inclines which is nice but then I think there's a steep descent down the other side. Don't know if you can see it but there's a little red roof there that is Cambern Bothy. We can hear deer calling all over this valley. Not seen a single one. Literally just said that there's a load there. Holy smokes. Can't give you a CMI on there, let's see if we can get on here. There's one, I said that, and then all of a sudden, see a load of deer. Nice, here we go, I've got a feeling that might be a composting toilet. Loo Riverview. Look at this, someone used to live here, how crazy is that? We are so far from anything. Mountain Bothies Association Hello, oh hey, someone's staying in here. Got another room, check that out. Let's go. It's actually much warmer outside than it is in, so I've got a few butchers out here. I'm going to cook up, pour some water and have got a pasta bolognese for lunch. What have you got for lunch? Beef hot pot. What? Ooh. A pasta bolognese. Jeez. Bolognese on a rice cracker, sun's shining, forehead's burning. Isn't it? Life is good, isn't it? Let's have a quick look, See this is a toilet shovel. That's all right, it's got a proper seat. Put the camera in there. Everybody must sit down at all times, including the old fellows. Please only put pee, poo, and paper. Sound that, innit? So that was about seven and a half miles from where we camped last night to the boffy, and looks like we've got about the same again to the end of the trail. So we spent a while having lunch, just chilled out for a little bit, which was nice. It's not very often you get calm sunshine and no midges in Scotland. Very, very rare occasion. If the boffy was full, that would make a nice campsite. Just have to get across to it. Look at that. First cairn of the trip. Definitely a bit more rugged, remote up here. Can't get over the views along this part. It's absolutely unreal. Really a totally different place to the first half of the trail. Which is your favourite? The forest at the start or this? Let me know. We're heading right down. Now this has to be one of the best views in Scotland, oh look at this, wow look at that. Believe it or not there is actually someone pushing a bike down there. That's a bit of a crossing. Now the final section down to the bottom of the glen there and then all the way through there and somewhere around the bottom of that mountain should be Morvick. I've now got a sweat on. It's cold but hot, warm and cold, breezing and red hot and sweaty and Baltic, you can't decide. And a nice little pallet bench for a final snack and drink break before we finish off. How's Nessie getting on? I think she's enjoyed it, especially today's where with all the waterfalls she likes to drink, she likes to go in the old water. Believe it or not I've eaten every bit of that food that I brought with me. I've got three jelly babies left which will get me. The final seven kilometers. I don't know how Dad survived on such a little boot machine. Trail brings you right past the front of it. Should say on there. Memorial Hut, ready to see. Table, look out for a view from the front. So we're back on, I'm guessing they can drive to this, so I reckon we follow this track all the way to the end. First part of the hike's nice, going through the forest and stuff, but the best part is definitely basically when you reach Glen Affric from there onwards it's a incredible view so it's a nice warm for the first day and a half and then a second day and a half a bit harder quite a lot harder today much slower yeah a lot of people split this into four i think if you did that you would stay at Canny Still do the same as we did the first day then When you get to the end of the first big lock where we stopped at a picnic bench, you would camp there. Then you'd camp at the stay at the boffy or the hostel and then do this one on the last day. So that would be a four day split. Alright, that's a few miles. River's nice and deep for a swim in summer. Yeah, that's what we're saying. There's bull, calves, cows with horns, island moors. My favourite. We have arrived at a road. which means we must be close. By the way, this is the Falls of Glomach, which is probably 10 miles from here is the highest waterfall in the UK and really remote. I think it's on the Cape Wrath Trail. So this is a caravan and camping or caravan and motorhome club site in Morvic, which means the end is here somewhere. Here it is, the sign that marks the end of the African Trail way, well done mate, well done. Right, let me check the mileage for you, okay so today we've done 16, just to prove it we did 16 on the first day 18 on the second day 16 today that is 50 miles, it's supposed to be 44. 44 miles, we've done 50. You can take a mile or two off for detours to waterfalls What a trail! I think they're having a draft with the mileage. Have you enjoyed it? Yeah fantastic, thanks very much. Thank you, thank you for watching. 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